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| 24. | This misconception has never been guarded against by any philosopher, | 500 |
| 25. | Hence the ineptitude of the controversy, | 500 |
| 26. | In this controversy Kant is as much at fault as his predecessors, | 502 |
| 27. | How this system of Institutes avoids these errors, | 504 |
| 28. | First: it starts from no hypothesis, | 504 |
| 29. | Secondly: it finds that all cognition consists of two elements, | 505 |
| 30. | Thirdly: it finds that each element is no cognition, but only a half or part-cognition, | 505 |
| 31. | Fourthly: it finds that matter is only a half cognition, | 506 |
| 32. | Fifthly: it establishes "intuitive," and overthrows "representative" perception, | 506 |
| 33. | Sixthly: it steers clear of materialism, | 506 |
| 34. | Seventhly: it steers clear of spurious idealism, | 507 |
| 35. | Eighthly: it is under no obligation to explain the origin of knowledge, because knowledge itself is the Beginning, | 509 |
| 36. | The synthesis of ego and non-ego is original, and not factitious or secondary, | 510 |
| PROPOSITION X. | ||
| What Absolute Existence is, | 511 | |
| Demonstration, | 511 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 512 | |
| 1. | This proposition solves the problem of ontology, | 512 |
| 2. | It answers the question; What is Truth?, | 513 |
| 3. | All Existence is the synthesis of the universal and the particular, | 514 |
| 4. | Thus the equation of the Known and the Existent has been proved, | 515 |
| 5. | The coincidence of the Absolute in Existence with the Absolute in Cognition has also been proved, | 516 |
| 6. | Attention called to restriction in foregoing paragraph, | 517 |
| 7. | Illustration of restriction—What the ontology gives out as alone Absolute Existence, | 517 |
| 8. | This paragraph qualifies a previous assertion, | 518 |
| 9. | In what sense we know, and in what sense we are ignorant of, Absolute Existence, | 519 |
| 10. | Tenth Counter-proposition, | 521 |
| PROPOSITION XI. | ||
| What Absolute Existence is Necessary, | 522 | |
| Demonstration, | 522 | |
| Observations and Explanations, | 523 | |
| 1. | Distinction taken in this proposition. Ontological proof of Deity, | 523 |
| 2. | The system is forced to this conclusion, | 525 |
| 3. | Eleventh Counter-proposition, | 525 |
| Summary and Conclusion, | 526 | |
| 1. | The main question is—How has the system redeemed its pledges?, | 526 |
| 2. | It is submitted that the system is both reasoned and true, | 527 |
| 3. | The chief consideration to be looked to in estimating the system, | 527
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